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bummed out on bengal

The stereotype of the Indian from India in American culture has been an enduring one, in part inherited from British colonialism and shoehorned into the mass media tropes that frame our present perceptions. If all the oppressed and colonized peoples … Continue reading

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PORTRAIT OF A TUG OF WAR

Not every great age produced portraits. The Greeks made almost none, except on their coins, until the time of Alexander the Great, whose legions ranged over the world from India to Egypt. Alexander had his own private portrait artist, the … Continue reading

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